Love is a tough, ever hopeful thing, not easily destroyed.

Now is History as fast as the mind remembers.

It's no fun watching you disintegrate. Where is the old "I Love Myself" mantra? You need to feel you are indeed lovable and that your life matters. Listen. The birds are singing your name.

I learned that famous writers are people with foibles like anyone else and this helped me realize reaching their level of notoriety wasn't impossible.

It is true that I grew up in an affluent neighborhood and went to a prestigious school. But there were horrors that went on behind closed doors.

I'm fascinated how owning something, especially something as big as a home, can affect your political leanings. Home ownership spawns thoughts of equity and maintaining value.

My dark comic edge is the end result of trying to use humor to maintain my sanity growing up in a dysfunctional family in Honolulu.

Anyone who wants to be a writer should, if given the opportunity, hang out with "real writers," that is, poets or writers who are lions in literature, semi-lions, or published authors.

Writers should take advantage of their surroundings, if only to trigger memories that juice their writing.

For the first time I realized adults could back themselves into corners so remote that love, or its memory, could no longer reach them.

Lack of sound mind and judgement – the ability to make considered decisions or come to sensible conclusions, is a matter of frustration and disillusionment to God

When humanity dies, what happens to all the people?

A force engaged is out of the hand of its commander.

I started 20 years without missing a race and ESPN started broadcasting on the air waves.

In our eyes the roads are endless. Two are crossroads of the shadow.

I seek the substantial in life.

But hands are sacred things. Touch is personal, fingers of love, feelers of blind eyes, tongues of those who cannot talk.

If there's one thing I know, it's men. I ought to. It's been my life's work.

Some people started to call me "the King of No" because with Daft Punk we were saying "no" to everything.

Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all; and there she but maunders and mumbles.